Explosive turn in the US leaks: The FBI seems to have caught the mole – a 21-year-old gun fan who expected his arrest.
Dighton/Washington – Online friends describe Jack Teixeira as a man “like in the movies”. Specifically: “He is fit. He is strong. He’s armed. He’s trained.” And since Thursday it’s also been quite popular. The 21-year-old is said to be responsible for the Ukraine leaks and has recently published a number of US secret documents on the Internet. The FBI arrested him.
“The FBI’s Right Here”: US Leaks Mole Waits on Porch
News channels showed footage of the suspect being led to a car in his home in Dighton, Massachusetts, by heavily armed security forces – in a T-shirt and shorts. Before that, he was sitting on his porch reading a book. He seemed to already be aware that he would be arrested soon. His childhood home had been besieged by reporters. journalists of New York Times had been able to trace photographed images of the secret documents back to Teixeira. When the media confronted him about the allegations, the alleged mole said: “The FBI is right here.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland said the suspect’s arrest was “in connection with an investigation into the alleged unauthorized removal, storage and disclosure of classified national defense information.” The man was due to appear before a judge in the US District Court in Massachusetts on Friday.
Jack Teixeira: This is known about the alleged mole of the Ukraine leaks – alias “OG”
The New York Times according to had led a “trail of digital evidence” to the suspect. Teixeira was the head of a private chat group on the online network Discord called Thug Shaker Central, where the documents appeared. A man nicknamed “OG” published the Washington Post according to hundreds of documents on the platform for months, which is used in particular for the exchange of video games. Accordingly, the editors received information about the man from two members of a group on the online platform Discord.
The Discord group, which the alleged disseminator of the secret information is said to have belonged to, has around 24 members, including people from Russia and Ukraine. reported the Washington Post. What unites them is their “love of weapons, military equipment and God”.
Loud Washington Post Teixeira has a “bad opinion of the government” in Washington. A group member said OG had labeled the United States, and particularly law enforcement and intelligence agencies, as a “dark force” trying to oppress citizens and “keep them in the dark.”
“OG” is said to have reportedly told group members that he “slogged for hours” to copy the confidential documents and then shared them with the Discord group. In order to make his work easier, he finally switched to photographing the documents and then posting them. He was a member of the Air National Guard, i.e. the military. This apparently gave him access to secret documents.
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Ukraine leaks show explosive intelligence information – an overview
In the past few days, numerous secret US government documents previously distributed on online platforms have become known to the general public through media reports. Most of the documents relate to the Ukraine war. A spokesman for the US Department of Defense had classified the leak of the documents as a “very serious threat” to national security.
The release of the documents has raised significant concerns in Western countries. The documents, most of which are no longer available on the Internet, are said to contain explosive information about Ukraine’s fight against the Russian invasion troops.
According to one of the documents, the US secret services are said to have doubts about the success of a possible counter-offensive by the Ukrainian army Washington Post. There are “continuing Ukrainian backlogs” in the training of soldiers and in the supply of ammunition. The documents should also contain information that the US secret services have spied on allied governments. There was also talk of Putin’s cancer. However, the authenticity of the documents has not been proven without a doubt. (as/afp)
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